SEO 101

Ross John interview Joy Hawkins, the owner of Sterling Sky Inc, Google Local Top Contributor, and creator of the Expert’s Guide to Local SEO. The

Google has been testing a lot lately and we have a few pieces of intel to pass along thanks to the ever attention SEO industry;

Google’s Project Owl is discussed along with some new finds from hyperaware Google watchers such as a potential Job Search system in the wings. John

John and Ross explore an article discussing the future of organic search and how much it is expected to change in the near future. They

Google is finally policing Google Partners with stricter policies due to misrepresentation issues. Also, updates to Google’s Quality Rater Guidelines show an increased interest in

Today’s show touches on Google’s confirmation of an on-site penalty and Natural News is back in Google’s index. They also mention Google now says it

Google is now allowing people to save and socially share their favorite places within lists… about frigg’n time! Also Yelp announced a new feature to

Google releases a video on how to hire SEOs. Read Your Text Out Loud… If it doesn’t sound right, it may not rank well. Manipulating the Back Button

Ross and John discuss the latest algorithm updates targeting blackhat SEO tactics like PBNs and linkwheels. They also delve into a wide range of news

Bing is testing Bing Saves search bookmarking feature; Google PenalizesFrench Link NetworkBuzzea. Ross also recaps his presentation at thethe Design Tech Summit at the International

Yahoos new deal with Microsoft left open 49% of their search to in-house or 3rd party results. Seems they have signed a deal with Google

Google notes links you can ignore, why Title Tags are rewritten, an increase in food thumbnails in search results, and more direct emails from Google

A New Google Guideline Testing Tool, Conversational Shopping and SEO Questions from Listeners as John Carcutt and Ross Dunn feature some of the early news from

Listeners know we have had the Mueller Files for a while now, well… it’s time for the Illyes Files to make its presence known. This

Ross and John talk about Google Crawl budgets and what you need to know. Click to close mobile ads will now be penalized by Google. Plus,

Yahoo out, Altaba in, and the mobile interstitial penalty is rolling out. The bulk of the show, however, is focused on some key steps to

BuzzSumo study on content and SEO reveals that 50% of content gets less than 8 shares (across all social),75% of content generates ZERO links. John

Google makes more changes to local schema requirements, local box results, asks for topics for the Google Webmaster Hangouts, we answer a question from another

Google’s mobile-first focus and announcements to that effect led many to believe the indexes would be split but, the latest news seems to discount that.

Hacking and phishing took an abnormally significant portion of this show. In addition, John & Ross discussed SEO budgets, determining SEO value, and a couple

No Changes Needed in Tactics Due to Google Penguin 4.0, plus Google’s Gary Illyes said on my public Facebook post that the new Penguin algorithm

Though the insights haven’t begun to solidify, the Mozcast showed a startling 111 degrees today and that prefaced a show of many thoughts on Google’s

Ross and John review the latest Google updates to organic and local search results with an emphasis on local. They discuss the addition of critic

Ross and his guest co-host Scott Van Achte discuss Google’s throttling of keyword planner data for low-paying advertisers, HireMoz.com, dropping the “mobile-friendly” in search results,

Google’s bogus “accidental” blocking of the keyword planner to those without Adwords campaigns has come back in a new form – restricted results without a

John Carcutt and Ross Dunn discuss Verizon buying Yahoo, automating SEO, and whether 301 vs. 302 redirects matter anymore. They also answer – quite literally

John and Ross discuss how few links make a large difference in some very high volume terms. Quality links are still the key, widespread link

John and Ross discuss the intricacies of algorithmic lingo in the SEO world, HTTPS taking over, an ode to authorship, and they answer questions from

After Google shut access to the keyword planner to everyone but those with active AdWords campaign the SEO world lit up with anger. But, was

Google is adding its own symptom-related direct answers on mobile in the US. The info is sourced from a team of expert doctors from Harvard

Ross outlines some curious results from Google PageSpeed Insights and decides it is time to reach out to Google. The Mueller files cover URL structure

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John and Ross introduce what is the first episode of SEO 101 at its new home on Cranberry.FM. The rest of the show digs into

Google dropped the manual penalty hammer on websites providing paid reviews of products without nofollowing links, and on sites using the popular EasyRecipe plugin that

John and Ross interview David Harry about his article Getting Your Head Around RankBrain to debunk many of the incorrect assumptions about this machine learning

How to Improve Local Search Rankings, RankBrain News as RankBrain does not impact either Crawling or Algos. Plus, we hearQuestions from the Community to Ross

It was a busy week in news with Google finally removing the majority of referral SPAM from Google Analytics, we discussed manual action penalties from

Google AdWords Sidebar Change Update , plus learn about an Opportunity of a Lifetime for an SEO. AMP Results Now Live in Search asGoogle began

Rich Snippets may depend on quality of other pages in your SERP. So if your page is not getting a Rich Snippet, it may be because

Google head of search announces retirement. Amit Singhal will be succeeded by John Giannandrea, who leads the company’s artificial intelligence research. Brands can now Edit

AlphaGo Concurs Go using machine learning, the number of moves in Go are roughly equal to a google more than all those in chess.An interesting

Big Google Update! But it’s Not Penguin 4.0, not Panda (though Panda now part of the Core Algo),Brand Term related (big impact on News Sites).It

How Does Google Handle Different Types of Duplicate Content?Created by Technical Issues? Ross Dunn and John Carcuttlearn the impact of duplicate URLs viaA Google Search

Learn all about changes to Google+ Local.. Google AMP may be coming to an SEO requirement near you, Penguin 4 may be here in January,

Learn all about what Google 2015 quality raters guidelines mean for SEOs, and the Penguin Real Time update  getting delayed till next year.  Google is testing 4 ads

BuzzSumo study on content, SEO relevant part:50% of content gets less than 8 shares (across all social,75% of content generates ZERO links. Google moves to

6000 members on the Google+ community; Google launches new search results interface for tablets; What does Yahoo’s new Google partnership mean for SEOs future?; Google search broken for days for IE users…If you are used

Learn all about the new Google RankBrain algorithm as well aswhat the possibilities and implications of Self-Learningare.Google WMC detects and gets rid of unwanted sneaky

  Yahoo’s new deal with Microsoft left open 49% of their search to in-house or 3rd party results. Seems they have signed a deal with